Wait Lists
What does your wait list look like?
Do you want to be that teacher who always has a wait list of students to get in your class?
Adapt your teaching methods (or use mine) to help you teach in small groups.
Once you do, the results are stunning
Students enjoy coming to class more than the traditional lesson. They have friends there. There is fun and work at the same time. They are practicing and progressing. Their parents see the progress and see that the small group is creating this productivity. Referrals fill up your wait lists.
I’ve moved 3 times in 17 years, starting up my small group lessons each place in a world that believes private lessons are the best way for a child to learn piano.
Yet I’ve found that once I get a small group of students, the rest come in from referrals. I have collected and documented this for 16 years now with a google form that asks every student who signs up, how they found me. You can see the registration form by entering your email below:
You cannot buy advertising like that
It’s the synergy and fun of a small group lesson. Whenever I have a student move or have to give up lessons for a sports conflict, I have friends of the current students who want into that class. So, parents make a request like, “If that 4:00 Tuesday class comes open, let us know, we want to join in Aiden’s class.”
Rather than make multiple trips each week, busy moms often request to have all their kids in the same class. My favorite classes are the ones where a group of friends approach me to form a new class.
I had a group of 1st graders who all came from the same neighborhood together. The parents only had to do the carpool once a month. The kids all fed off of each other’s success, particularly when I would point out the obvious strengths of each child. They would look at each other and emulate that strength.
We don’t all stay on the same piece, that just wouldn’t work, but we learn from the same books, and the favorites become the delight of everyone when one person after another progresses through them.
You will find that your wait list will grow because teaching in small groups is so much more fun for everyone!
